High school Quote by Deandre Ayton

I wanted to have a shoe as a professional, and that sparked that creativity and thought process of what that could be like if…

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I'm very, very specific about sneakers. I've always been a fan. It's not just certain brands, it's also the model of the shoe, the…

— Hasan Minhaj

I wanted to be a sneaker designer since I was 10; it was my dream to work at Nike and design signature shoes for…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

I like shoes. Always liked shoes. Wanted to be a shoe designer or somebody who made shoes, something in shoes.

— Jrue Holiday

As a kid, you always wanted your own shoe. To see it happen, it's like a dream come true.

— Nick Young

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

— Patrick Cox

I've been making shoes my whole life.

— Steve Madden

Everybody growing up where I came from that was the designer shoe. Nobody had Balenciaga's and all the stuff that we walk around in…

— Davante Adams

I grew up wanting to play in Nike, but both my high school and college wore something else. So to be able to fulfill…

— A'ja Wilson

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

— Giuseppe Zanotti

As a kid, I always loved sneakers and style.

— Kyle Kuzma

I've always loved shoes; I'm kind of a big sneakerhead.

— Noah Schnapp